Belarus starts fishing for Far Eastern fish in Russia

Thus, within the framework of the intergovernmental agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus dated March 13, 2002, on the basis of the Protocol of the twentieth session of the Russian-Belarusian mixed commission in the field of fisheries dated December 9, 2022, Belarus was allocated a quota for this year in the Far Eastern fishery basin pollock in the exclusive economic zone of Russia. For the Belarusian side, the volume of pollock catch in the West Bering Sea subarea is determined at 30 thousand tons, in the North Sea of Okhotsk subarea - 10 thousand tons, in the Kamchatka-Kuril subarea - 5 thousand tons, in the West Kamchatka subarea - 5 thousand tons . Fishing will be carried out by joint Russian-Belarusian enterprises. To date, the Primorsky Territorial Administration has already issued the first five permits for fishing in the North Sea of Okhotsk subarea. As the head of ...